Perhaps check out richuncles.com for another way to invest in Cali and get more than a bathroom:) Burbank is going to be tough to beat no matter how you slice it. 

Hopefully an ebook would be pretty cheap, I don't know, but maybe less than $15.00, it's hardly worth charging for since I'm sure what ever system is used to collect payments will want a slice and the chain probably goes on.

yes this would only be possible if by some very stroke of luck one of your local community banks held the note in their portfolio.if its a big institution then the loan has been sold and sliced and diced and you will never be able to purchase it.. its a 1 in a 100 shot but worth taking all you have to do is pull court records and see who the bene is on the mortgage and any subsequent assignments.. if it ended up for instance assigned to MERS then its gone.. it will go through the system.

You could say put 100k into a property worth 5 million and own a small slice of a really nice property and area that likely you could not buy on your own.

You brokering, slicing and dicing notes from bulk sales, have license will travel thing?

She told me that her "slice" was down to $500/mo after 18 months of ownership.

., Mango Money Cards ($500 DD deposit required) or NetSpend.  

There's always another angle, or something else to learn, in real estate - so many ways to slice the onion.The knowledge and skills you gain now will serve you for the rest of your life, so the earlier you start, the better in my opinion!

End of the day, either true b\uyer has to pay you extra or wholesaler gives you a slice (like they're real generous).Your state allow wholesaling at all?

The cash buyers I know all tell me they'd rather buy from small wholesalers than the bigger companies because they know the "wholesale" companies have taken a huge slice of the pie and the prices they are selling at don't give them much wiggle room for rehab.